The Father of a Murdered Son

Ballard Campus 7-10-11 Pastor Mark Driscoll
Tags: Parable, Wrath, Murder
Luke 19:11-27
The Father of a Murdered Son
Jesus wants us to see the world and history from the perspective of God.
Should we put ourselves in the position of judge over God?
+We are the guilty trying to place ourselves on the Bemis seat.
Jesus is trying to open our understanding so we can gain a right perspective
Parable
There is a landowner who cultived the land by planting the vineyard and then went away - This is God the Father, the owner of everything
+He is not only a landowner but he is a father with an heir
In the OT there are 14 references to God as Father (always as the father of a nation)
There is a vineyard - This would have been the nation and people of Israel, see Isaiah 6, see the Temple with a gold vine with jewels in place of fruit - the Vine was a national symbol (like the maple leaf represents Canada)
There are Tenants  - they are like renters who pay money to the lanlord based on what they make of the grapes
+These guys make a profit, they get greedy and don't pay their rent, they are stealing, They are basically saying, "This land doesn't belong to the landowner, it's mine"
+These guys are like the religious people who don't lead people toward repentance rather they are selling their voice to tell people what they want to hear
This parable is a rebuke of corrupt religious leader and a system that is not speaking for God
The First Servant - he preaches reptentance, he is like a prophet sent in the OT and John the Baptist
The Second Servant - he preaches reptentance, he is like a prophet sent in the OT and John the Baptist
The Third Servant - he preaches reptentance, he is like a prophet sent in the OT and John the Baptist
+The Prophets lives sucked, they were alone and called to preach to hard-hearted people who would not yield to the Holy Spirit, they would just try and often succeed in killing them
Humanity kept doing to the servants of God
Then the Father send his Beloved Son - He is Jesus
+He comes to mediate the disagreement and help the tenants
They decide to steal the land finally, they kill the son.
+This is the Story of the World from the Perspective of God
God loves so when his kid is murdered GOD MUST GET ANGRY
What does the Father Do?
Hell makes perfect sense - We hate God, we reject Him, We kill his servants, and finally we kill his Son - IT SHOULD GO BAD FOR US
The landowning father will destroy the renters - God will set aside the nation of Israel and work through other people
The commentators - Jesus is refering to the story of a particular stone that looked wrong to the builders, it was rejected and thrown to the scrap heap, then after laying everything out they see that that one odd-ball stone was the perfect one to be the cornerstone, so they reclaimed that stone, and used it to build the Temple
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What I must do is start with Jesus and then build my life on that
If I don't then Jesus will be like the stone that crushes me
Jesus Says I died, If you renpent then I will take my death and count it to cover your eternal debt
The Father says if you take my son's offer, then I'll adopt you into my family and give you my family name of Christian
Oh and by the way since you were greedy to get my stuff I'll give you an eternal inheritance
Scandalous
Are there any aspects of my life where Jesus is not the cornerstone?
Are there any aspects of my life where I am acting like the wicked tenants?
Are there any aspects of my life where I am not a fruitful like the vine?